'Father Christmas' dies during school party

A person wearing a Santa Claus outfit holds the hand of a child during a Christmas show. File picture: Vadim Ghirda/AP

A person wearing a Santa Claus outfit holds the hand of a child during a Christmas show. File picture: Vadim Ghirda/AP

Published Dec 22, 2017

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Rome - A man dressed in a Father Christmas costume collapsed

and died on Friday while handing out presents at a Christmas school

party in southern Italy for pupils aged around 11-13.

The Gino Rossi Vairo institute in Agropoli, a seaside town about 100

kilometres south-east of Naples, told dpa that the cause of death was

not known.

The ANSA news agency named the victim as Pasquale Pagano, 45.

A local newspaper, InfoCilento.it, quoted the mother of one of the

pupils as saying that his face turned blue, suggesting that Pagano

may have had a heart attack.

"An ambulance was called and they tried everything to save his life

but there was nothing they could do for him," the mother, whose name

was not published, told the paper.

dpa

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